... would take long to do. 'We thought it was going to be a fairly routine investigation. We didn't expect to find that there was much to the allegations of collusion, quite honestly. The claim that officers from the security forces had supplied Loyalist gunmen with the names and addresses of people they thought were terrorists in order to have them murdered seemed too fantastic to have any basis.' (Unidentified senior officer quoted in The Sunday Telegraph 30 March 2003) Should we be reassured that life in the UK is still civilised enough for such innocence to survive in a profession not generally noted for its innocence? Or should we be depressed that senior police personnel could be so far ...

... forensic examination by lawyers or suspicious-minded journalists. Suddenly the investigators can use phrases like 'this could not really be explained', 'he was unwilling to discuss', 'she would not come to the phone' Before you know it, researching too diligently can slip into a fuggers' fugue of accusation, with all manner of folk supposedly conspiring to murder someone in a rigged car crash even the dog in the Fiat Uno. For those who think these rules are somehow an attack on investigative journalism (this used just to be called journalism but given the current low standards of the trade the phrase has some useful descriptive value), here is a defence which also happens to be a ...

... as I commented before in these columns, if the print found isn't Wallace's, we have the extraordinary coincidence that a print close enough to Wallace's to convince two print experts just happens to turn up on the TSBD's 6th floor near the so-called sniper's nest. Mellen gives us nearly 100 pages about 'Mac' Wallace, centred on his trial for murder in 1951 in an apparent 'domestic', for which he received a suspended sentence even though convicted of first degree murder; and the details of security investigations of him by the Office of Naval 1 Available on her website at <http://joanmellen.com/wordpress/ 2014/04/30/lecture-two-lyndon-johnson-and-mac -wallace-sunday- april-2/> ...

... arguments,(14) he did receive' a standing ovation and nearly two minutes of solid applause.' BBC2's Dr David Kelly: the conspiracy files(16) included an interview with Norman Baker. Also featured in the programme was outspoken barrister Michael Shrimpton, whose flamboyant behaviour may not have won over many converts to the 'Kelly was murdered' camp. An earlier outing on The Alex Jones Show,(17) however, had allowed him another opportunity to air his views. Shrimpton put forward the possibility that the' tasking for [Kelly's] assassination... was generated in the UK, went to Paris, was then OK'd in Paris [The] operational ...

... decades of autocratic misrule.' I wonder how long it took him to come up with 'autocratic misrule' as a description of the fate of the peoples of Guatemala and Iran after the Americans installed their puppet regimes. To call what transpired in Iran and Guatemala 'autocratic misrule' goes beyond euphemism to deception. Tens of thousands of people were murdered in Guatemala in the 1970s and 80s by death squads trained and armed by the US. And 'the threat of communism' in Guatemala wasn't 'tendentious': it was an invention to justify overthrowing the government. Would we call the brutality of Iran's SAVAK 'autocratic misrule'? Can't we admit that the US installed and supported a whole parade ...

... which provided personal details which would have made identifying the author easier than it already is.*** During( -----) I was accepted as a member of the Institute of Professional Investigators. My experiences between( -----) until the present time are all relevant to the (Hilda) Murrell murder in that it can be plainly seen there is a very close link between the IPI and government agencies who were responsible for monitoring the activities of nuclear protesters. During my( -----) year of membership in the IPI I came into contact with various officials, serving members of the Security Service. I was surprised ...

... over the years has purposely been made more complex than the reality deserves and the above statement should be held in mind whenever reading this book. It is quite fair to say that everything I read or see about developments in North-ern Ireland has been given a new pers-pective. It is one that shows conclusively that the British government colluded with the murder of lawyers sympathetic to the republican cause in that province. Their names may be familiar: Pat Finucane and Rosemary Nelson. The question revealed for us all is, how far has the cornerstone of our democ-racy crumbled? In a work of impeccable scholarship, a heavy but rewarding read, Beatrix Campbell has described not only the socio-political geography ...

... the television portrayal of government or war was for all intents and purposes its essence. What was not seen on television – never happened. It is necessary to bear this in mind when reviewing the events of the past weeks. The vicious and obscene snuff- movie broadcast throughout the world in which the conquest of Libya is consummated by Qaddafi's murder was not accidental. When Ronald Reagan called Qaddafi a 'mad dog' he was following a carefully honed script. This 'mad dog' imagery – that of an animal infected with rabies who can only be 'put down' – is the language of the West, the language of slaughtering Native Americans and making trophies out of their body parts ...

... 704,445. For further information see <www.oxforddnb.com> Hilda Murrell Further developments in the case of Hilda Murrell (also in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography as 'environmentalist and peace campaigner'). Following a 'cold case review' by West Mercia Constabulary in 2002, a Shrewsbury labourer, Andrew George, was charged with her kidnap and murder in June 2003. In February 2004 two more men were arrested in connection with the case, only to be released the following day, 'pending further inquiries'. The two men were not named. George pleaded not guilty at Birmingham Crown Court in March and a further hearing was scheduled for April 2004. Since then, silence. ...

... the claims he makes. There are no sources and no index. And with material as tricky as SAS assassination squads, for example, documentation, even if it is scanty, is essential. Instead of documentation we get stuff like this (taken from p69 after opening the book at random). The emphases are mine. Discussing the murder of one Eamon McMahon, McArdle says: "McMahon, a debonair type, was a Republican from a fiercely Nationalist family. He was generally recognised as a shadowy paramilitary activist by the security forces. He had identified himself with the IRA in South Armagh in the early 1970s, but in later years he was involved with the INLA ...